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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:52:20 -0400
From:      Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>
To:        Samuel V Green III <macunkie@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Xorg 7.5.2 on powerpc 9.0 Stable ?
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-CURRENT is the development version (not released, only compile from
source), so newer than 9.0.  Normal users, especially new users, should
stick with the releases.

You may want to ask on freebsd-x11 mailing list for help with the Xorg port.

- Justin

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Samuel V Green III <macunkie@gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks Justin,
>
> As a "newbie"  can you help me understand what "-CURRENT" means ?
> After my fresh install of 9.0 stable,  I ran
> portsnap fetch
> portsnap extract
> portsnap update
> Which updated to xorg 7.5.2 where I had build errors.
> Is "-CURRENT a powerpc version of FreeBSD"  that is available that I
> should be installing as a base system rather than 9.0 stable ?
>
> Thanks again for your help !
>
> Samuel.
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:15 AM, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Samuel V Green III <macunkie@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Has anyone successfully built this meta port on 9.0 stable ?
>> I received  and error ( not a broken pipe)  but some dependency error,
>>  and reinstalled 9.0 stable to get the original xorg 7.5.1.
>> So far my build of xorg 7.5.1 is building fine.  I originally  had it
>> built, and gnome2 installed but afterwords could not get any internet
>> connection configured.
>> So I elected to start over figuring I choose wrong config options of the
>> org 7.5.1 install.
>>
>> Any ppc users successfully get xorg 7.5.2 to build ?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Samuel.
>>
>
> I have Xorg 7.5.2 installed on my G4, working just fine.  However, this is
> -CURRENT, but it shouldn't be too dissimilar from 9.0 in that regard.  I
> haven't tried building gnome, though.
>
> - Justin
>
>
>



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